100 Ways to Say 'I Love You' | Mileven 💕✅

35. After you

35. After you.

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Mike pushed open the door of the restaurant, where his date with Elle is taking place.

"After you," Mike said, holding the door open for his long-term girlfriend.

"Thank you, Mike," Elle said, sweetly. She stroked Mike's cheek and walked into the restaurant.

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Mike helped El put her coat back on, after their meal at the restaurant. It wasn't an extremely posh restaurant, but it wasn't McDonald's either.

"Did you enjoy yourself, sweetheart?" Mike asked, kissing her cheek over her shoulder. She smiled so brightly up at him.

"Every time I'm with you, I enjoy myself all that much more," she said, with her speech improving rapidly - thanks to the help of Hopper, Mike and her friends.

Mike's heart just melted even further. He thought there was nothing else that she could have said something to make him become the puddle of goo that he usually was around her, but what she had just said had pushed it further and he would be a puddle for the rest of his life.

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Mike had gotten his licence months ago, allowing him to take El on more dates without supervision, thankfully!

He'd taken her to the aquarium, and watched as she pressed her nose to the tank like a child, out of town restaurants, expanding their palette as well as their new inside jokes.

"Michael, is that you?" Karen asked, walking the stairs, onto the first floor, with a basket full of her two kids washing as well as hers.

"Yeah, mom, it's me," Mike said, kicking off his shoes and hanging up his coat. He smiled up at his mom and moved a piece of her hair back into place.

"Thank you, baby," before Mike met Jane, he would have crinkled his nose when she said that, but since he had met her, he was a changed boy (man). "How's Jane?"

El had been introduced to Karen as 'Jane', with Karen not understanding why Mike calls her El, but had chosen not to question it.

"She's fine," Mike smiled, knowing there was no new news to tell his mother about his girlfriend.

Karen smiled and ruffled her son's hair, Mike may have pulled a slight face, but he smiled down at her.

"Night mom," Mike kissed her cheek and walked up the stairs to his bedroom.

Karen smiled as her only baby boy walked up the stairs, still over the moon with his recent date with his beloved girl. "Night baby boy,'